Friday’s College Baseball Top-50 Scoreboard & Wrapup

A big weekend kicked off in a big way on Friday – highlighted by 13 head-to-head series between top-50 teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings. In noteworthy showdown series, #4 LSU won yet another 1-run SEC game (5-4 at #3 Kentucky) while #7 Baylor extended its school-record winning streak to 22 while remaining unbeaten (16-0) in the Big 12 with a 5-3 comeback in a statement-making game at #8 Texas A&M. Another top-50 matchup produced a 16-inning marathon spanning nearly five hours, as #2 Florida survived against #31 Georgia in a 3-2 game that ended on a strikeout/wild pitch with a runner on third. All told, the favorites went 24-11 (69%) in Friday’s CB360 top-50 games, with one game rained out and another suspended mid-game. front-page photo courtesy of Florida

Two top-50 teams clinched their series by winning game-2 on Friday: #22 New Mexico State 4-3 vs. Louisiana Tech and #49 Mississippi State 7-1 vs. Tennessee (both will go for series sweeps on Saturday).

Tyler Moore (LSU)

Friday’s 37 top-50 results are listed below, an assortment of postgame links (Thursday’s pair of top-50 games are included at the bottom of the page). A special dedicated Twitter feed (see below) also is included below, featuring team tweets from top-50 teams playing head-to-head and from the “Bakers dozen” top-13 …

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